OHCHR called on the parties to the war, and corporations involved in the value chain of Sudanese commodities, to ensure compliance with international law.
"Sudan's vast wealth of natural resources should benefit its people," said UN rights chief Volker Türk.
"Distressingly, what we are seeing today is anything but that. In fact, this wealth is only serving to undermine human rights and drive conflict, bringing pain and suffering on an enormous scale.
"This war economy must be disrupted and the international community must pay much closer attention to the commodities and trade routes that help keep it alive."
Sudan’s war economy fuelling ‘self-perpetuating’ conflict, UN human rights office says
OHCHR called on the parties to the war, and corporations involved in the value chain of Sudanese commodities, to ensure compliance with international law.
Sudan's warring factions are profiting from control over the country's resources, with the "war economy" helping to sustain the conflict, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
To fund the growing cost of military operations, the warring parties rely on controlling and exploiting territory, trade routes and commodities, contributing to a conflict that has become "increasingly self-perpetuating," the UN human rights office OHCHR said.
The war between Sudan's regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) erupted in April 2023.
It has killed 200,000 people by some estimates and displaced upwards of 11 million, while thrusting several areas of Sudan into hunger and famine.
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